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...Philadelphia, Humphrey demonstrated his still-considerable hold on older, middle-class Negroes when he went before 5,000 delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
...over the school's main business office, and 15 sympathetic white students occupied the Dean of Students' office to support demands for desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When 40 undergraduates fighting for the right of M.A. and Ph.D. candidates to belong to the student government held a sit-in at the registrar's office, they were not only arrested but kicked out of school...
After three hours of tumultuous debate, delegates to the founding convention of the new United Methodist Church last week voted to drop a longstanding requirement that its ministers vow to refrain from drinking and smoking. Henceforth, the church will simply require clergymen to, pledge "to exercise responsible self-control by personal habits conducive to bodily health, mental and emotional maturity," in accordance with "the highest ideals of Christian life...
...week's end the conference elected Methodist Bishop Eugene M. Frank of Missouri president of the Council of Bishops of the new church. Said Frank: "This is a new church. That is not to say that it is perfect, but anyone who thinks that honest and sometimes wrenching efforts were not made to open up the new Methodist Church is mistaken. The old churches were patronizing at their best as concerns the racial issue. The new church is energetically and sacrificially dedicated to making Christlike brotherhood real. There will be foot-dragging and agonized cries from those...
...included in the merger is the Southern Methodist Church, a small branch of Methodism that boasts some 10,000 members, mostly in South Carolina. Southern Methodist University was founded by the Methodist Church, and the term Southern refers to its geographical location, not its affiliation...